OIA: Correspondence with Matua Kahurangi
Stephanie Cullen made this Official Information request to David Seymour
The request was refused by David Seymour.
      From: Stephanie Cullen
      
    
    Dear David Seymour,
I would like to request any and all records of correspondence with Matua Kahurangi, including between your office and him, and between each of the offices of your portfolios and him, since June 2024.
Yours faithfully,
Stephanie Cullen
(a real person)
        From: David Seymour (MIN)
        David Seymour
      
    
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        From: David Seymour (MIN)
        David Seymour
      
    
    Dear Stephanie
 
We have been attempting to send an OIA response to you via two email
 addresses you have used previously.
 
Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups:
[1]Stephanie Cullen ([email address])
 The recipient's mailbox is full and can't accept messages now. Please try
 resending your message later, or contact the recipient directly.
[2][email address] ([email address])
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 resending your message later, or contact the recipient directly.
Could you please advise an email address for an OIA response to your
 request of 28 March.
 
Kind regards,
 
 
 
Office of Hon David Seymour
[3]A pink and Deputy Prime Minister (from 31 May 2025)
 white emblem
 with two women Minister for Regulation
 holding flags Associate Minister of Education
 Description
 automatically Associate Minister of Justice
 generated
 Associate Minister of Finance
Associate Minister of Health
 
7.6 Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington
 
 
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 2. mailto:[email address]
        From: David Seymour (MIN)
        David Seymour
      
    
    Dear Stephanie
 
Thank you for your email in which you submitted an Official Information
 Act request as follows:
 
“any and all records of correspondence with Matua Kahurangi, including
 between your office and him, and between each of the offices of your
 portfolios and him, since June 2024”
 
We received your request on Friday 2 May 2025.  We will endeavour to
 respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than
 Friday 30 May 2025, being 20 working days after the day your request was
 received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will
 notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
 
Kind regards,
 
 
 
Office of Hon David Seymour
[1]A pink and Deputy Prime Minister (from 31 May 2025)
 white emblem
 with two women Minister for Regulation
 holding flags Associate Minister of Education
 Description
 automatically Associate Minister of Justice
 generated
 Associate Minister of Finance
Associate Minister of Health
 
7.6 Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington
 
DSOIA502
 
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        From: David Seymour (MIN)
        David Seymour
      
    
    Dear Stephanie
 
Thank you for your OIA request of 2 May 2025.
 
Your request has been considered under the Official Information Act 1982
 (the Act).
 
This office holds none of the information you have requested. I am
 therefore refusing your request under section 18(e) of the OIA because the
 information you have requested does not exist.
 
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of
 this decision. Information about how to make a complaint is available at
 [1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
 
Kind regards,
on behalf of Hon David Seymour
 
 
 
Office of Hon David Seymour
[2]A pink and Deputy Prime Minister (from 31 May 2025)
 white emblem
 with two women Minister for Regulation
 holding flags Associate Minister of Education
 Description
 automatically Associate Minister of Justice
 generated
 Associate Minister of Finance
Associate Minister of Health
 
7.6 Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington
 
DSOIA502
 
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Things to do with this request
- Add an annotation (to help the requester or others)
 - Download a zip file of all correspondence (note: this contains the same information already available above).
 

